Hi everyone and so yesterday Samsung
finally announced the Galaxy S5 and quite a few people were surprised - I
was one of them
that Samsung really kind of didn't bother to go for a redesign this time around,. It's
long overdue and
frankly just adding water proofing and a small speed bump here or there
it's not really going to cut it. Not when you look at the competition like the
Sony Z2. It really does feel like Samsung put a lot of its time and
effort into it wearables
and basically just phoned in the Galaxy S5. Almost quite literally. You could have phoned up
an engineer and went
make it like the Galaxy S4 but add the IP 67 from the active
and you have the same device. A bump in the camera, some
new software tweaks for the camera. None of this stuff is particularly important
really unless you're,
you know, really invested in those particular areas.
I was really expecting to see a bigger overall
bump and potentially a bit of a redesign as well.
The Galaxy S5 if you have owned the S4, heck if you have owned the S3 to a certain
extent,
the devices are very, very similar in look and feel. Spec wise
we just aren't seeing much of a bump here. It really does feel like a,
you know, well, as one commenter put, you know, the
thing Apple would do effectively, a small speed bump every other year.
It does seem strange, especially with the iPhone 6 due this year
that Samsung would risk putting its flagship on the market looking
just the same as its previous models. Samsung's obviously really keen here I think
to say to people it's business as usual
with the Galaxy S range. In essence if you like the Galaxy S4 and the Galaxy S3
then, you know, just buy this, you know, it's a safe bet
and that's really what this feels like to me, Samsung made a safe bet.
They don't want to upset the apple cart particularly and so they've not gone for a
radical redesign.
but the problem is when your competitors are improving
all the time, when they're catching up in not only the design stakes but the specs
as well
you're going to have a bit of a problem. By the time October
rolls around and people are thinking about which mobile handset they want for Christmas
the Galaxy S5 may very well find itself
well, at the bottom of people's wish list. It just won't
offer enough at that stage in the 2014 cycle
to kind of be the device everybody's going to want.
It will be very interesting to see what happens with the Note 4
It'll also be very interesting to see if the rumours are true and there is a
premium
version of the S5 due this year.
That may very well be the one that bumps the various speed, has a bit of a redesign
and from a point view of probably same look and feel
but moving to an all-aluminium body and getting rid of the polycarbonates.
But really it comes down to what do Samsung feel
this device is going to do in the market. Well, it feels it's going to sell really
well
if it doesn't change anything drastically. If it effectively just gives people
more of the
same and improves some of the areas people grumbled about last time. I mean that's
not necessarily a bad thing. You know, if it's not broken don't fix it
but at the same time you've got a whole year of
this device on the market and I just can't see Samsung
not releasing some form of either major speed bump as
better chips come down the line from May, or
another Galaxy S5 handset, a premium handset which
does cement its position during the second half of the year as
the go-to device people are looking for. Expect to see that most likely launched a
week before
Apple does, that would be my guess. So
do please let me know in the comments what did you think the Galaxy S5?
Did you feel that this is going to be Samsung's best device ever or were you a
little disappointed as a fair few people seem to be.
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